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enCopyright 2015 Wearable World Inc.http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssTue, 31 Mar 2015 15:04:45 -0700Your Long Wait For A (Two-Second) Longer Vine Video Is Over<!-- tml-version="2" --><div tml-image="ci01bf5457b001efe2" tml-image-caption=""><figure><img src="http://a5.files.readwrite.com/image/upload/c_fill,cs_srgb,w_620/MTI1OTEyMDQ5NjQ0NTIxNDgy.png" /><figcaption></figcaption></figure></div><p>Fans of ultrashort video, rejoice. You are no longer limited to&nbsp;Vine’s six-second shooting format or Instagram Video’s 15 seconds. Instead, the&nbsp;<a href="http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/11/ocho-launch/">short-video app Ocho</a>&nbsp;now offers—wait for it—eight-second videos (and an associated social network) for iOS users.&nbsp;</p><p>Why does the world need another social network that's two seconds longer than Vine? Ocho co-founder Jourdan Urbach said his company's stems from research suggesting that the average person's attention span is just eight seconds long. (That might explain more than he thinks it does.)</p><p>Urbach insists Ocho offers other differentiating features. For instance, it will let users upload more than eight seconds of video, then use a timelapse tool to scrunch the extra footage into the allotted timeframe.&nbsp;After the video is uploaded, users can also record voiceovers and filters to complete the final product.&nbsp;</p><p>Ocho will let people autoplay the videos of other users they follow, thus eliminating the need to mash buttons every eight seconds. And it restricts its members to video-response comments. Text is exclusively used to hashtag or to tag other users to a video.&nbsp;</p><p>While the app is only released on iOS right now, Ocho tells Android users to stay tuned for future updates.<strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><p><em>Images courtesy of <a href="http://ocho.co/#/">Ocho</a></em></p>When 6 seconds is too short and 15 seconds is too long.http://readwrite.com/2014/11/12/ocho-8-second-video-vine-instagram
http://readwrite.com/2014/11/12/ocho-8-second-video-vine-instagramMobileWed, 12 Nov 2014 06:34:52 -0800Stephanie Ellen ChanInstagram's Hyperlapse App Is A Steadicam In Your Pocket<!-- tml-version="2" --><p>The latest app to come out of Instagram does only one thing. But it does it well.<strong></strong></p><p>Hyperlapse, which the Facebook-owned photo-sharing service <a href="http://blog.instagram.com/post/95829278497/hyperlapse-from-instagram">revealed in a blog post Tuesday</a>, is a video editor that steadies and speeds up your video recordings in order to make your home videos look like high-quality film productions, imitating the shot you might get from a Steadicam or tracking rig.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.wired.com/2014/08/hyperlapse-instagrams-new-app-is-like-a-15000-video-setup-in-your-hand/">Wired</a>&nbsp;called it “a $15,000 video setup in your hand.”</p><p>The app works simply: You start recording, finish, and share your video with the click of three melodic buttons. On the editing screen, the only option for adjusting your Hyperlapse, as the recording is called, is to choose a playback speed between 1x and 12x the actual speed. </p><p>Why isn't this just a feature of the Instagram app? One answer is that Instagram is already getting overwhelmed with features. A <a href="http://readwrite.com/2013/12/12/instagram-messaging-service-chat-apps">private-messaging option, Instagram Direct</a>, doesn't appear to have threatened messaging apps like Snapchat. A <a href="http://blog.instagram.com/post/87703266532/new-creative-tools">June update</a> brought an extensive professional photography suite to Instagram—though Instagram won't say how many users bother to use them.&nbsp;</p><p>Next to the jam-packed primary app, Hyperlapse looks positively sleek. </p><p>In order to use Hyperlapse, you don’t even need an Instagram account—once you download it, you just give it permission to access your camera and microphone, and you’re ready to go. (Nagging question: If it needs access to my mic, how come my videos don't have sound?)</p><p>For now, you need an iPhone or other Apple mobile device to use it, as the app is only available in the&nbsp;<a href="https://itunes.apple.com/app/id740146917">Apple App Store</a> so far.</p><p>Here ReadWrite’s mascot pup, Ramona, models for a Hyperlapse. To get the full effect, we recommend viewing it while Yakety Sax plays in the background. </p><p><em>Screenshot via Instagram's Hyperlapse video</em></p>Take a time lapse with your phone.http://readwrite.com/2014/08/26/instagram-hyperlapse-time-lapse-video
http://readwrite.com/2014/08/26/instagram-hyperlapse-time-lapse-videoMobileTue, 26 Aug 2014 11:04:16 -0700Lauren OrsiniCitizen-Captured Videos Are Rapidly Reshaping The News<!-- tml-version="2" --><p></p><div tml-image="ci01b2828bb0038266" tml-render-position="right" tml-render-size="medium"><figure><img src="http://a4.files.readwrite.com/image/upload/c_fill,cs_srgb,dpr_1.0,q_80,w_620/MTIyMzAzNjc0MjA5ODk1MDE0.jpg" /></figure></div><p>After Texas Sen. Wendy Davis had wound up her historic <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/headlines/20130626-senate-filibuster-turns-wendy-davis-into-texas-newest-political-star.ece">13-hour filibuster</a>, the clock struck 11:51 pm. It was the pre-agreed time for people watching from the upstairs gallery to start chanting in order to interrupt an impending vote on SB5, a GOP bill to limit abortions. It was then that Elizabeth Campbell of Austin, Tex., <a href="https://vine.co/v/hz6ibAKFaJ6">captured the moment on video</a> with her Vine app:</p><p>That hypnotic six-second loop of the deafening crowd was the kind of moment we used to expect to see on CNN. But as media critic Rachel Sklar and others <a href="https://medium.com/ladybits-on-medium/cb900fa4f14b">have ably documented</a>, the established giants of video news—the cable and broadcast networks—were off the air in Austin that night. Twitter wasn't the second screen, a companion to TV for a big news event. It was the only screen.</p><p>Davis's stand is part of a new citizen video trend that’s sweeping the globe. It was only in January that&nbsp;<a href="http://readwrite.com/2013/01/24/twitter-vine">Twitter launched Vine</a>, a mobile app that lets users shoot and share video blips. In early June, Twitter announced that Vine had reached more than 13 million downloads, a staggering number for any app.</p><p>While its six-second limitation was initially seen as a big disadvantage, it was befitting of a company that helped us distill our thoughts into 140-character blips.</p><p>How big is that consumer interest in videos? It's best captured in that classic YouTube stat of video uploads.&nbsp;In 2007, YouTube announced that eight hours of video were uploaded every minute. That figure has jumped to 100 hours of video each minute this year. That’s a 13-fold increase in video uploads in six years.</p><p>This market was too big for Facebook to ignore, so it jumped into short video on June 20 by adding a video-capture button to Instagram. Instagram lets you record videos of 15 seconds in length.</p><blockquote tml-render-position="left" tml-render-size="medium"><p><strong>See also: <a href="http://readwrite.com/2013/05/14/voyeurgasm-8-ways-to-leverage-i-like-to-watch-ubertrend">8 Ways To Leverage The "I Like To Watch" Ubertrend</a></strong></p></blockquote><p>Yet short-video players had arrived much earlier. In 2011, Tout debuted a service that allowed users to record and upload 11-second videos. At the time, Tout CEO Michael Downing told me that most online viewers tended to abandon videos in less than nine seconds. Tout believed its 11-second “touts” were therefore optimized for our short attention span.</p><p>But another social video service, 12seconds.tv, was shut down in October 2010 due to lack of user growth, leading some to wonder about the future of short video.</p><h2>Short Videos Cast A Long Shadow</h2><p>Wonder no more. The new citizen video market is finally here, bolstered by the massive reach of Twitter's and Facebook's feeds, and it’s ready to rewrite the rules of realtime reportage.</p><p>Downing now tells me that the company has launched a service for commercial users that allows clients to upload videos as long as 45 seconds, an eternity in a hyper-change age. It’s all part of a trend that Downing says is the “TVfication of the Internet.”</p><p>Such varied media as the <em>Wall Street Journal</em>, the <em>San Jose Mercury News</em>, and even the Dominican Republic’s biggest newspaper now rely on short-attention-span video news. The <em>Journal</em> even dedicates an entire site to these fleeting moments, dubbed Worldstream.</p><p>The specialized needs of news media—chiefly authentication—are being addressed by such players as Storyful and Storymaker.</p><p>Meanwhile, consumers get to learn how to record ultra-short video messages that captivate their friends and family. One such service, Threadlife, believes that even six seconds is too long and limits your artistry to three seconds, although users can thread segments together.</p><p>It shows how vibrant the short-video market is that even as Facebook and Twitter battle each other, upstarts find room to grow.</p><p>As Campbell tells me: “It was an incredibly inspiring experience on an issue I can’t believe we are still having to fight for. We’ll be louder on Monday!”</p><p>The revolution is no longer being televised. In a world of Internet video gone mobile, there's no time to wait for that.</p>A Texas standoff foreshadows how short videos will change media and culture.http://readwrite.com/2013/06/28/citizen-captured-videos-reshaping-news
http://readwrite.com/2013/06/28/citizen-captured-videos-reshaping-newsSocialFri, 28 Jun 2013 06:07:00 -0700Michael Tchong